Do you wear a poppy or choose not to?

Why?

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I wear one if I happen to come across someone selling them.

...I do tend to think only of those who died fighting Nazis though, not those who are fighting for pay or because they want to kill brown people.

thatscottishguy · 26-30, M

@CheshireCatalyst Unfortunately the poppy is to represent modern wars too.

CheshireCatalyst · 36-40, M

@thatscottishguy I know and it makes it distasteful to me, but I compare it to some of the sexual harassment arguments I've seen recently:

Men are harassing women - *but some women harass men too!!*

Yes, fine, but this doesn't change the original point.

Modern conflicts are awful resource grabs, human rights abuses, proxy wars... But they don't change the sacrifices people made in the second world war, and that we should always remember.

thatscottishguy · 26-30, M

I agree with remembering sacrifices but I would rather do it in my own way and not with a political tool.